IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.
WEAR AND TEAR OF ROADWAY. CONTRACTOR TO PAY. A judgment of importance to localbodies, was delivered at Invercargill by Mr Cruicks-hank, S.M., on Wednesday la,st. The Wallace County Council proceeded against ■ a. contractor, Frank Christie, for £3OO for extraordinary expenses incurred in repairing Te Anau roads owing to the heavy traffic caused by defendant in conveying inaterial-for a. hotel for the Tourist Department. 'His Worship said that as the reslulti of the traffic a fairly good metal road had been cut to pieces. Contracts- had been let for repairs totalling £965, so the department had no grqund tor complaint regarding, the amount-, claimed. Judgment was given, for plaintiff for the amount claimed, and costs.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HPGAZ19260322.2.9
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4954, 22 March 1926, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
116IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4954, 22 March 1926, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hauraki Plains Gazette. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in